The city that ate itself : Butte, Montana and its expanding Berkeley Pit /
"Open-pit mining was not just a new way to mine, but a new way to live. After the 1920s, hard-rock mines across the American West transitioned from underground operations to large open-pit holes. Butte, Montana, a well-known underground mining center, experienced this switch when the Anaconda C...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Reno, Nevada :
University of Nevada Press,
[2018]
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Series: | Mining and society series.
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Online Access: | CONNECT |